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I am also a fan of your buffalo herd pictures, Welshboy

Rhinos are also great

Time for the penultimate post in this TR



Sheenaugh-Lee, we were well impressed ourselves with the size of the herd, in a way I am glad we did not meet them the night before on our night drive.



John, if my sums are right does it mean you are visiting the park around the first week in June; we are there the last week of May, first week of June ourselves.

Before collecting our bags I took my family down the rhino trail to show them what they're missed the day before. This vervet monkey was one of many playing on the grass by the viewing area, we continued down the path finding this footprint in the dust (can anyone identify it?)





This bird was searching among the litter for bugs and we came across the bushbuck and her young further down the path again.



We threw our bags in the car and headed out into the park for one last drive down the S25 and back up round the S121. No more than 1km from the camp we found some of the buffalo we'd seen just before including this fine bull.



On the river road our bird of prey sightings improved greatly, the animal sightings were non-existent. We spotted this pair of Grey Laurie, an eagle not sure which one (he didn't help us by turning his head), a solitary Fish eagle and what appears to be a young Marshall eagle.









We also spotted this circling bird of prey but are not sure what it is but he followed us down the road for a fair distance or were we following him?



As you may gather we struggled identifying some of the birds, I'm hoping someone on the forum can help.

My thoughts are with all the staff and people caught up in the floods, it makes our issues with a few centimeters of snow pale into insignificance.

Nice sightings

The footprint looks like it belongs to a predator....Lion?

The footprint was inside the fence line vinkie so hopefully not a lion and the fence appeared to be in one piece a good way either side of the print. I am not sure how big the print was now but I do not think it was that big

Its definitely a cat print that it could be lion, leopard or cheetah

Truly a great TR and magic pics Thank you

I wish we were there in June, unfortuanatly we are going mid August

Two years ago at Berg-en-dal a leopard made a kill right next to the fence where we were camping, it was amazing..

Maybe its learnt how to get over the fence.....

John

WOW what a sighting wish Id seen that! And erm I certainly hope it hasn't learnt to get over the fence

At least you are going to visit the park John even if you have to wait a bit longer than us. I am just wondering why I left it so long to return, 28 years, kids may have something to do with it.



I'd go with a leopard it was not a large print and there was only the one that we can remember now. It was near the section of the path with over hanging trees and the sign at the start of the path does warn that it is not to be used after dark.

EISH be glad for warnings hey can you imagine walking into the face of a hungry leopard in the middle of the night, I love a leopard but such close proximity eish

How ever long it has been,a year or 28 , as soon as you arrive its like youve never been away.

The sounds of the bush get straight back under your skin...

john

Serious looking footprint there Welshboy. I'm afraid I can't help you, but I wouldn't like to meet it in the dark.

I agree with John n Poppy, Kruger does indeed get under your skin. ... for some.

Indeed a cat footprint Welshboy! But on the inside of the fence?

The Eagle below the Grey Lourie is a Bateleur, one of my favourite birds! My most favourite, the Fish Eagle! Awesome sightings and pictures!

It was definitely inside the fence Hilda just down by the vehicle size gate in the rhino path fence. We were quite surprised ourselves when we found the print, should we have told the staff at the time?
Thanks for confirming the Bateleur it's another one for my daughter to cross off her list
I'm hiring a bigger camera lens for this year's visit so I'm hoping for better close-ups this time around. I never thought I'd get so much pleasure from our bird sightings, I'm certainly not normally the keenest bird spotter at home.



The Kruger is most definitely under my skin and I think it's under my SO now as well. I just need to work on her to come back every year now, this year is sorted but we are booked into Tamboti for the first two nights. Everything will be okay I'm sure.

Hi Welshboy.

Just caught up and I have to say that I really enjoyed all your episodes, and you got fantastic photographic skills.